‘Hockeyland’ captures high-stakes world of Minnesota high-school hockey: ‘It’s bonkers’

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home to the US Hockey Hall of Fame — it was the final season of Golden Bears hockey as they know it.“You’re playing with the same kids every year, from six to seven until the age of 18.

And you’re out there, your last year of playing with your brothers,” standout forward Elliot Van Orsdel told The Post. “It’s more than just a game.

It really is. You’re playing for your family. It’s more than just you out there with your buddies. This is your family that you grew up with.” On the other side of center ice are the Hermantown Hawks, a powerhouse program that routinely produces pro-caliber talent. “We just had Cole Koepke make his NHL debut last Tuesday with the Tampa Bay Lightning at Madison Square Garden against the Rangers,” Hermantown coach Pat Andrews, who trained much of the 2020 squad while they were kids, told The Post. “That’s our fourth NHL player in the last nine years.”Senior standout and 2020 Montreal Canadiens draft pick Biondi — who currently plays NCAA puck for Minnesota Duluth — had to manage the pressures of having scouts at each Hermantown game and becoming a role model for his entire hometown.But the former Hawks captain took his admiration and devotion for Hermantown to an entirely new level.Biondi — crowned “Mr.